Tanks

[moot]

Originally posted by BigPlay
How about it's armor, stupid thing dies too easy. Who cares about 1 mile an hour off in speed. Also how about the Osti's they seem to be tuffer that the panzer yet their on the same hull as the panzer. I have hit Ostis with the Tigers main gun twice without doing a thing yet the panzer blows up like the crew helped with it's demise.

Conjecture.. Gotta have film for that sort of problem Bigplay, otherwise it's just anecdote.  Pyro once showed a complaint he'd got (or that was posted on the forums), about the same sort of problem as you're describing.

He posted the film, Pyro looked at it and posted screenshots which showed exactly where the rounds went.. And in fact there was nothing wrong.

[Banshee7]

lol Skuzzy had fun with this thread.  As for your ? Dogg...I'm not very sure...and I'm not sure what half what was said because of all the rules broken:lol .  But i dont think having 2 extra gears would make any difference

[hubsonfire]

Knowing what the gearing is for the current setup would be a good start.

[Sketch]

Moot... The sortie with the Osti, was that the one with the round flying through it and it was "not" taking damage?

Originally posted by Sketch
See Rule #2

Heck yeah!  1,241 post later I finally got one of these!!    SOrry... couldn't resist Skuzzy!

[Larry]

Transmission (Type)
Preselector, Maybach-Olvar 401216, 8 forward, 1 reverse
Olvar preselective, 8 forward, 1 reverse
8 forward, 4 reverse.



Max speed
23 mph, 23.5 mph, 24 mph, 25 mph
37 kph, 38 kph, 45.4

[moot]

The sortie with the Ostie?  The anecdote with Pyro walking a player through his own film was with an M8 IIRC.  He was seeing "true" hit sprites and complaining they did no damage, or something like that.

[E25280]

Originally posted by Sketch
Heck yeah!  1,241 post later I finally got one of these!!    SOrry... couldn't resist Skuzzy!

Pfft . . you only got a #2.


You have a long way to go before you gain the coveted #4, let alone the glorious #5!


To the topic at hand, for authenticity it would be nice to have the extra gears, but in game terms I don't see how they would make a difference.  At best you might find an intermediate gear that lets you climb a hill a smidge faster, but that would be about it.

[Sketch]

Originally posted by E25280
Pfft . . you only got a #2.
You have a long way to go before you gain the coveted #4, let alone the glorious #5!

Hey hey hey!  I am working up to that..... Shhhhhhh!  Don't tell Skuzzy!

[Rino]

For some reason this looks like a math thread to me

[DPQ5]

See rules #11dybillion

[wrongwayric]

Ok real world comparison. I drive semi's for a living 6 gears v.s. 8 and the little extra speed on flat ground will not make much difference in the long run. However the 8 gears will allow you to pull a hill better, not necessarily faster, and let you go down a hill better, once again not necessarily faster. I'll take a 10 speed transmission everyday for almost anywhere i drive, however i would prefer an 18 speed in the mountains just for the extra brakeing, eng/transmission, it provides going down a hill. I would say the extra gears they threw in that tiger were more for use on the roadways and probably saw little to no use in normal combat conditions thus if it came right down to it i'd suspect that that version may actually have been slower than the other in actual combat conditions. Not sure why you'd need that many reverse speeds? Just my 2 cents.
AKsleepy

[Iron_Cross]

...(snip)...Not sure why you'd need that many reverse speeds? (snip)
AKsleepy

Silly, it is so the Germans don't loose their perk points.  Retreating to the concrete just as fast as advancing to the spawn point to camp.

[wrongwayric]

  Oh yea perk points i forgot.

[LEDPIG]

Come on,.... all those see number rules 4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14, etc............. and I get PNG'd....

What's this a conspiracy.

Skuzzy must not like me ......

[panzerr]

http://www.alanhamby.com/transmission.shtml


http://www.fprado.com/armorsite/tiger1.htm


I just found this info on the Tiger I.  It had a 8 speed transmission.  Our current tiger I in the game is only a 6 speed.  Is it a limitation of the game of only being able to have 6 or was it a mistake?  2nd, the tiger I is only capable of doing 23.6 mph (38 km/h).  The panzer IV was capable of doing 24.9 mph (40 km/h).  In the game these tanks are equal in speed.

Thanks AK for sharing the Tiger link - pretty interesting stuff!